On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:39, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:22:39PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > > Brian M. Carlson said on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:39:29AM +0000,: > > > > > I'm not sure that this is even legal, at least in the US. > > > > Will you please clarify why?? > > I'm assuming you meant the copyright assignment statement, and > certainly, I will clarify. According to David Turner, IIRC, it requires > written paperwork for copyright assignment. Debian, though, usually > accepts emails as well, but not licenses that have default assignments. > This was a big deal with ReiserFS (search the archives for more info).
The proposed Apache licensed doesn't do copyright assignment -- it does licensing. That's an entirely different matter. I'm not jumping into this discussion, just pointing out that what I might have said might have been confusing :) -- -Dave Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Support my work: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=novalis&p=FSF